Question: Is it permissible to conduct experiments on myself, imagining as if I am already in the spiritual world?

Answer: No, we must not imagine these states. We must strive for them. Strive and not imagine how this actually takes place.

On the basis of imagination, according to your animate part, you begin to build up conceptions that this is already happening.

I am speaking about striving. People ask: “What should one strive for?” Baal HaSulam, in the article “There is None Else Besides Him,” writes that we should strive for the revelation of the Shechina, which is clothed in the whole world. Until you reveal this, you will not have a true picture of the world.

Question: Is it possible to search for this?

Answer: To search means to strive for it to be revealed and not to construct all sorts of fantasies as if you already imagine what it is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’” in the Work?”

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Question: Is it considered that I myself chose my past pace of advancement, or did I not have a choice then?

Answer: You had a choice, but you did not exercise it. Regarding the pace of advancement, you are free. We must believe that in the current state, our feeling of how we advance and our attitude to the Creator depend on our efforts.

If you apply efforts, then in the end, you will relate well to all these things. You will justify Him, you will attain love for Him; and if not, then you will go through the same states in a bad feeling.

Question: For example, if in the past I could choose two directions: to the right or to the left, then even if I made a mistake, by now, has the Creator arranged it so that everything turned out correctly?

Answer: Regarding the past, you did not make a mistake in anything.

Question: Is it worthwhile to recall previous good states in order to receive reinforcement for the present and the future?

Answer: Yes. That is what you are doing. It does not matter whether it is worthwhile or not, whether it is permitted or not. That is what people do. But when a person advances a bit further, he does not want to receive reinforcement from the past; he always seeks reinforcement in the Creator, in disconnecting himself from the past.

This is called “Every day will be as new in your eyes.” Everything is new. You do not want to receive support from what was before. You want to receive support from your search for a connection with the Creator each time. However, if for the time being the body demands this kind of reinforcement, that is also normal. Nothing can be done; such are the stages of the path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’ in the Work?”

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Comment: I keep revealing the desire to receive, and there is no end to this.

My Response: We agree with you that your request to be rid of the desire to receive comes from the bottom of your heart. You suffer and want to get rid of it. However, there are still several factors here.

First of all, not all your “crimes” have been revealed to you yet. There are still many “cases” against you each of which must be revealed and shown to you, and then you will confess to each of them, and accordingly, each case will be closed.

In addition, seeing the depth of your desire to receive, seeing how much you are still an egoist although you previously thought that this was no longer so, at the same time you reveal that you did not ask in a pure form to be rid of the desire to receive. You asked to get rid of it because you felt bad from it, and not because, setting yourself aside, you desired to be rid of this quality.

You must hate it because it is against the Creator, and this is revealed gradually, together with the exposure of the desire. The greater the quantitative depth of your ego into which you descend, the more qualitatively you see that you did not at all ask to be detached from the desire to receive as from a distinct, isolated quality, apart from the fact that you feel bad because of it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’ in the Work?”

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Question: Where is the boundary regarding clarifications carried out in the group?

Answer: There is no boundary! You might ask: “If I am on level number ten and the group is on level number two, can it awaken me to rise to the eleventh level? What does it mean that they ‘wash my brain’? Who are they compared to me that they could arouse me, given such a difference in our levels?”

This is not a question. They can awaken you and help your ascent regardless of who they are. That is why it is written: “From all my students I have learned.”

You can take a group of beginners who understand the spiritual idea only a little, and through them receive such an ascent and such a “brain-washing” that you will rise from the world of Yetzira to the world of Beria. I am speaking completely seriously. This has nothing to do with what a person represents, what he feels, or what he clarifies. It relates only to your effort in relation to the group.

If you were now to enter the group of the students of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, you would receive from them exactly as much as you receive here in your own group. Everything depends on what you demand and what you invest. What matters here is the effort of each person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is Nothing that Has No Place,’ in the Work?”

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